Posts Tagged: play jazz

In the turn from the century about 1920, numerous artists made their mark by playing in the discreet underground nightclubs called “Speakeasies” which are high class, “Blind pig” lower class or “Smokeasy” for tobacco users. The United States once prohibited the sale of alcoholic drinks and smoking tobacco in clubs as a constitutional amendment. One [...]

Learning jazz guitar is usually an expansion of playing blues, rock, or other popular music genres. But guitar playing is a field where harmony and improvisation can be taken to the highest level. The ideas you get from learning jazz guitar will be very helpful in achieving your goal to be a better and well-rounded [...]

There are many ways of starting to investigate how to play jazz guitar. Some guitar players see jazz as a way to learn improvisation. Others see jazz guitar as an instrument that accompanies a certain repertoire of songs. But once you start to actually study jazz you are confronted with a head-spinning array of odd [...]